Act of Reparation (Iesu dulcissime - Reparationis actus)

Most sweet Jesus, whose overflowing charity for men is requited by so much
forgetfulness, negligence and contempt, behold us prostrate before you, eager to repair by
a special act of homage the cruel indifference and injuries to which your loving Heart is
everywhere subject.

Mindful, alas! that we ourselves have had a share in such great indignities, which we
now deplore from the depths of our hearts, we humbly ask your pardon and declare our
readiness to atone by voluntary expiation, not only for our own personal offenses, but
also for the sins of those, who, straying far from the path of salvation, refuse in their
obstinate infidelity to follow you, their Shepherd and Leader, or, renouncing the promises
of their baptism, have cast off the sweet yoke of your law.

We are now resolved to expiate each and every deplorable outrage committed against you;
we are now determined to make amends for the manifold offenses against Christian modesty
in unbecoming dress and behavior, for all the foul seductions laid to ensnare the feet of
the innocent, for the frequent violations of Sundays and holy-days, and the shocking
blasphemies uttered against you and your Saints. We wish also to make amends for the
insults to which your Vicar on earth and your priests are subjected, for the profanation,
by conscious neglect or terrible acts of sacrilege, of the very Sacrament of your divine
love, and lastly for the public crimes of nations who resist the rights and teaching
authority of the Church which you have founded.

Would that we were able to wash away such abominations with our blood. We now offer, in
reparation for these violations of your divine honor, the satisfaction you once made to
your Eternal Father on the cross and which you continue to renew daily on our altars; we
offer it in union with the acts of atonement of your Virgin Mother and all the Saints and
of the pious faithful on earth; and we sincerely promise to make recompense, as far as we
can with the help of your grace, for all neglect of your great love and for the sins we
and others have committed in the past. Henceforth, we will live a life of unswerving
faith, of purity of conduct, of perfect observance of the precepts of the Gospel and
especially that of charity. We promise to the best of our power to prevent others from
offending you and to bring as many as possible to follow you.

O loving Jesus, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mother, our model in
reparation, deign to receive the voluntary offering we make of this act of expiation; and
by the crowning gift of perseverance keep us faithful unto death in our duty and the
allegiance we owe to you, so that we may all one day come to that happy home, where with
the Father and the Holy Spirit you live and reign, God, forever and ever. Amen.

A partial indulgence is granted to the faithful, who piously recite the above
act of reparation.

A plenary indulgence is granted if it is publicly recited on he feast of
the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.